Category: Art
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Kinda Möbius
This is a piece I completed a number of years back in school that I have wanted to write up retroactively… Ever since my childhood realization that the process of welding was used to create objects of immense strength and scale, I had long aspired to acquire both a working knowledge of and manual skill…
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Moped Coat Rack
A while ago I came across an unending supply of damaged brake levers generated through the routine maintenance of a moped fleet. It is very often that I must remind myself and my colleagues that every single physical object is unique, despite the impressive precision of modern manufacturing. Just like snowflakes, the unique variance between…
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Chocolate Petzl
A friend of mine bought a desktop thermoforming machine and let me borrow it. I immediately grabbed a couple interesting objects around the house to pull a test form. The first sheet actually went surprisingly well, not a bad little machine! In fact, the first pull worked so well that it actually managed to exceed…
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Stained Glass Crane
A friend of mine expressed interest in working on a stained glass project. Out of the various mediums of glasswork this was the one for which I was least suspecting to come across a collaborator. To my surprise, there was a particularly pleasant local vendor for any and all materials and tools required for the…
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Neon Crane
I started knowing absolutely nothing about the neon manufacturing process, beyond the equipment I could imagine would be involved to to fill the tube with a specific atmosphere. I won’t get into specifics of the entire process here, as it is very involved and there are various other resources that cover this. Maybe it deserves…